We all know a healthy breakfast is a good idea. But also, pastries exist. When faced with a contradiction of this magnitude, the best thing to do is to take the middle path. So, yeah, eat a healthy breakfast most days, but don't feel bad about allowing yourself to have chocolate for breakfast when you feel like it. And for those days when you do feel like it, here are 14 delicious recipes.

If single chocolate is good, it stands to reason that double chocolate is twice as good. And as any mathematician will tell you, the addition of peanut butter to chocolate improves it by a factor of 17.

Being gluten-free doesn't have to be a total drag all the time. For example, you can eat these amazingly delicious spiced orange chocolate chip waffles. You should also probably eat them even if you're not gluten-free.

Chocolate-covered strawberries are the inspiration for this lovely granola. But don't let its good looks fool you — this is the breakfast to eat on days when you mean business (or are just running late).

Banana bread is an essential part of the diet of anyone who buys bananas and then forgets about them (read: everyone). And lots of chocolate chips transform this treat from obligatory baked good to the best breakfast ever.

Yes, these muffins have chocolate. But they also have oat bran. So on the balance, if you can just like jog a block or take an extra flight of stairs during the day, these muffins are totally good for you. Possibly.

For whatever reason crepes somehow made it into the dessert category, but they're really just very thin pancakes, so they should fall squarely into breakfast. Help this wonderful, noble food claim its rightful place at the breakfast nook. It's the least you can do.

In the past five years or so salty-sweet went from an occasional surprise to a combo so ubiquitous that it's easy to roll your eyes at it. But don't you roll those eyes, missy! It became so popular because it tastes so very good. Enjoy it while it lasts. Some gross flavor will come into style soon enough.